The shaft of the ulna is reduced to a mere style ankylosedthroughout nearly its whole length with the radius, and appearing to be little more than a ridge on the surface of the latter bone until it is carefully examined.
The navicular and the cuboid unite, and the distal end of the fibula is ankylosed with the tibia.
The fibula is distinct, but very slender, and its distal end is ankylosed with the tibia.
There are four complete toes on the hind foot, but the middle metatarsals usually become, sooner or later, ankylosed into a cannon bone.
In cases of mal-union, especially when the bones are ankylosed to one another across the interosseous space, operation may be necessary, but it is neither easy in its performance nor always satisfactory in its results.
This is often a matter of social position; in the poor, an ankylosed joint is more useful and less expensive.
If there is a combination of flexion and genu valgum, the knee-joint should be resected and ankylosed in the straight position.
If, on the other hand, it be not ankylosed but movable, probably massage or, in cases of perforation of the tympanic membrane, direct mobilization of the bone will give results as good as those following stapedectomy.
If the stapes be ankylosed by fibrous adhesions to the margins of the fenestra ovalis, an attempt may be made to free it by cutting through the adhesions with a fine bistoury.
To determine whether the stapes is ankylosed or not, direct pressure of the probe on the head of the stapes may be necessary.
If an opening can be made into the vestibule by this means, it is hoped that the resulting scar tissue will form a membrane more resilient than the ankylosed stapes, and, in this way, permit vibrations of sound to enter the labyrinth.
The same result should be obtained after the complete mastoid operation, provided there be no internal-ear deafness and provided the stapes be not already ankylosed within the fenestra ovalis.
If the stapes be not firmly ankylosed it can usually be removed by slight traction.
The three metatarsals are elongated almost like those of a bird, and are ankylosed together.
The tympanic, periotic and squamosal are ankylosed together.
The ribs, which are much flattened, are occasionally ankylosed together by their margins.
The centra {524} of the vertebrae tend to become ankylosed in old individuals; the caudals have no processes, but are like those quite at the end of the series in long-tailed animals.
In correspondence with this massive carapace the dorsal vertebrae have fused together, and the lumbar vertebrae form a series ankylosed to each other and to the following sacrals.
The annular tympanic is not ankylosed to the surrounding bones, a character found in other low mammals.
In the Giraffe a pair of bony outgrowths, originally separate from the skull which bears them, but ultimately ankylosed to it, are covered by a layer of entirely unmodified skin.
The teeth are not implanted in sockets, but become ankylosed with the bones that bear them, and are replaced by others developed at their bases.
The vertebral column is often ankylosed in the fore-part, but is extremely elastic, owing to the cartilaginous cushion between each bone in the latter half.
In Orca generally four or five cervical vertebrae areankylosed as in the cachelots, but in the two species of Orcella only the atlas and axis are joined.
In the Megatheriidae the pelvis is exceedingly wide and massive, and is firmly ankylosed with a number of vertebrae.
The fibula is nearly as large as the tibia, and the two bones are generallyankylosed together at their proximal ends.
The cervical vertebrae are much compressed, but they are never ankylosed together.
Scarcely any movement can take place between them and the humerus, and in old animals the three bones are often ankylosed together.
The bones of the pelvis are ankylosed together, and to a large though variable number of vertebrae.
The bones constituting the pelvic girdle are not only as in other higher vertebrates ankylosed together forming the innominate bones, but are also ankylosed with a series of some seventeen sacral and pseudosacral vertebrae.
The proximal tarsal bones are always ankylosed to the tibia, and the distal tarsals to the metatarsals, so that the ankle joint is intertarsal.
The tympanics are ankylosed to the periotics, and the rami of the mandible do not meet in a true symphysis.
In the adult the supra-occipital is completely ankylosed with the epi-otics.
Free ribs are borne as a rule only by the thoracic vertebrae; ribs may be found in other regions, especially the cervical and sacral, but these are almost always ankylosed to the vertebrae.
The rami of the mandible are not ankylosed together in front.
The astragalus is closely applied to the tibia, in front of which it sends an ascending process, sometimes the two bones appear to have been ankylosed together, as in birds.
The three bones of the pelvis are, except in Archaeornithes, always ankylosed together in the adult, and the ilium is greatly prolonged in front of the acetabulum, which is perforated.
The shaft of the ulna is reduced to a mere style, ankylosed throughout nearly its whole length with the radius, and appearing to be little more than a ridge on the surface of the latter bone until it is carefully examined.
No person with a deformed orankylosed finger has been reported as missing.
This, however, is simply due to the mobility of the maxillary bone, to which they are ankylosed as in all other snakes.
Distal processes small and firmly ankylosed to distal end of shaft.
Distal processes if present not firmly ankylosed to distal end of shaft 20 20.
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